To facilitate communication and the exchange of information between patients, nurses, lab technicians, health insurers, physicians, policy makers, and existing knowledge-based systems, a set of shared standard terminologies and controlled vocabularies are necessary. In modern health information management systems, these vocabularies are defined within formal representations called ontologies, w...

Issues of embedding terminology service into large federations of multilingual digital collections are analyzed. A distributed system architecture is proposed, which preserves on one side a necessary degree of autonomy at the different sources, but allows on the other side to consistently correlate the chain of used terminology from the end-users to the collection maintainers. It should in part...

Originating as heavily descriptive sciences, biology and biomedicine have a long tradition of specialized terminologies, classification systems, and controlled vocabularies. Therefore, we should not be surprised at the enthusiasm with which bioand bio-medical informaticians have developed and made use of semantic technologies (e.g. see [1, 2]). Ontologies have a natural use in the domain. The N...

ANISE exploits knowledge encoded in controlled vocabularies to precisely visualize 3D Medical images. ANISE receives 3D images annotated with existing medical ontologies and performs reasoning tasks to improve effectiveness of organs and tissues visualization. Data of a Computed Tomography Head is used to show the benefits of considering semantic annotations and the precision achieved by a visu...

Inconsistent anatomical concept representation can be identified in anatomy textbooks and hard copy term lists, as well as in UMLS source vocabularies and other controlled medical terminologies. In this report we select some examples of inconsistent representations of anatomical concepts, and illustrate how these inconsistencies can be explained and reconciled by the Digital Anatomist Foundatio...

A considerable number of robust vocabularies and thesauri have been developed for the healthcare and biomedical domain. No single vocabulary, however; provides complete coverage of the information needs from a public health perspective. The results of an investigation of vocabulary sources for the development of a comprehensive controlled vocabulary for the public health domain at the Centers f...

UNLABELLED BLoader is a client server application for annotating and loading large amounts of Microarray data into a local installation of the MIAMExpress database. A set of nested spreadsheets is used to collect the required MIAME annotation. Controlled vocabularies are downloaded from MIAMExpress and ArrayExpress databases to guarantee MIAME compliance. AVAILABILITY The application is avail...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Creating a complete translation of a large vocabulary is a time-consuming task, which requires skilled and knowledgeable medical translators. Our goal is to examine to which extent such a task can be alleviated by a specific natural language processing technique, word alignment in parallel corpora. We experiment with translation from English to French. METHODS Build ...